That was my reaction to the piece as well. I wasn’t sexually abused as a child, but I was emotionally and physically abused by my alcoholic father, severely bullied for my entire public school career, and raped in university. I’ve done a lot of work on it through therapy over the years, but it never quite goes away.…
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This happened in the 60's. The culture was very different then. I developed a theory about my parents. He was a college professor (where everyone knows everyone else’s business), she was an ex-nurse stay-at-home mom who ridiculed people around her for being social climbers when she was herself a rabid status seeker…
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